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Committed By Juveniles Violent Crimes
1,932 wordsDuring my presentation last week, I focused on the violent crimes that juveniles commit and how the percentages of offenses have changed over the last fifteen to twenty years. Some of my focus for this presentation dealt with violence within schools- the alarming rates of student on student violence, as well as student on faculty / staff violence. I also provided many arrest statistics for juveniles who committed violent crimes. Statistics that compared juvenile trends to adult trends and statis...
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Juvenile Crime Aggravated Assault
1,436 wordsChicago police have their eyes pealed. The gangs on the street are on high alert. Just hours before six bullets ripped through a football game at the community park. A fourteen year old and a twelve year old seriously injured, and a thirteen-year old by stander killed by a stray bullet. The suspect, a fourteen year-old gang member, Isaac Cleaves. Two days later Isaac is found hiding in the basement of an abandoned building. You might believe that this is a rare case, but think again. Everyday in...
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Social Organization Related Homicides
646 wordsFeeling alienated by fellow classmates, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took the lives of themselves, twelve other students and one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused an immediate plea for more socially responsible communities, assuming that greater moral values would curb the likelihood of these argument-related homicides. This relies on the notion that greater social organiz...
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Gun Control Laws 2 Nd Amendment
1,292 wordsQuestioning the Necessity of Guns; The Second Amendment Every day in the United States ten children under the age of eighteen are killed accidentally by a gun, while another one hundred are seriously injured. Meanwhile every three hours a teenager uses a handgun to commit suicide. Seventy-five percent of all homicides in the U. S. are the result of handguns. Today there are well over 150 million handguns in America, and people who own handguns are more likely to kill a family member or a friend ...
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Gun Ownership Bear Arms
1,871 words... ted States in 1991, and approximately 70, 666, 000 were handguns. (web) Since 1989 gun manufactures / importers introduced an average of 3. 5 million new guns into the United States market alone. (CSGV at web & ATF June 29, 1994; U. S. Firearms Production, American Firearms industry, March 1994 p. 41; ATF, February 23, 1993; and U. S. Firearms Production 1993, American Firearms Industry, January 1995, p. 74) According to those records there is approximately one gun for each adult and half th...
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Violent Crimes African American
376 wordsThe Misconceptions -Although there is a widespread perception that teen violence in the United States is out of control, the truth is that our overall perceptions are fueled by dramatic occurrences that do not quite reflect reality. For example, fewer than 20 children under the age of 14 commit murder in any given year. -Homicides committed by juveniles are relatively rare, accounting for only 14 % of all homicides for which an offender was identified in 1995. - 75 % of homicide victims ages 12 ...
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Criminal Violence Violent Incidents
1,995 words... conveys the opposite message. Brown (1968) gave adolescent male participants feedback informing them they had looked foolish and meek when they backed down; these males were more likely to retaliate than those who had not received such feedback. Felson (1982) too found support for the hypothesis that conflicts are likely to be more serious if others present encourage the conflict to continue. He found third-party instigation increases the odds of a verbal dispute 1. 5 times, and increases th...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,616 words... d States (Churchill & Wall 1990: 37). From 1968 - 1971, these tactics were used against the BPP to control and neutralize what was believed to be "a dangerous black political group. " The most vicious and unrestrained application of COINTELPRO techniques during the late 1960 s and early 1970 s was clearly reserved for the BPP (Churchill & Wall 1990: 61; Horne 1995: 13). After several confrontations for over two years, the disputes between the BPP and US continued to the campus of UCL...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,653 words... le 1 reveals that in each year where gang territory data was available, the growth in the number of gang territories was significant. In the six years between 1972 and 1978, 44 new black gangs formed, and only two gangs became inactive. In the 14 years between 1982 and 1996, 150 new gangs formed. However, the most dramatic growth was in the four years between 1978 and 1982 when 101 new gangs formed. In addition to the number of gang territories increasing, the spatial distribution of gang te...
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U S Court 100 000 Population
2,156 wordsCapital Punishment, not a deterrent The question with which we must deal is not whether a substantial proportion of American citizens would today, if polled, opine that capital punishment is barbarously cruel, but whether they would find it to be so in light of all information presently available. (Justice Thurgood Marshall) There are two opposing views regarding capital punishment: those who oppose it and those who support the death penalty. Many opinions are understandable from both sides; for...
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Death Penalty Statutes Death Penalty States
7,143 wordsQuest For Abolition Critical Issues In Policing Michael O Brien INTRODUCTION In 1972, the Supreme Court declared that under the existing laws the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. (Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238) The majority of the Court concentrated it s objections on the way death penalty laws had been applied, finding the result so harsh, freakish, and arbitrary as to be constituti...
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100 000 People Gun Ownership
1,390 wordsThe Comparison And Contrasts Of The Usage The Comparison And Contrasts Of The Usage Of Guns In The United States And Great Within the United States, every police officer carries and is trained in the usage of firearms. Also, we have much less strict rules about gun usage and ownership of guns. Conversely, In Britain, only special police squads use guns and gun ownership is strictly regulated. This paper will attempt to compare and contrast gun usage in both societies and, hopefully, give a glimp...
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